Sunday, July 31, 2016

A PRIEST in Belgium has been stabbed by an asylum seeker he had allowed in to his home to use his shower, it has been reported.
Father Jos Vanderlee, 65, suffered injuries to his hands during the incident.
The suspect went to the priest’s house and asked if he could shower, and said he wanted to apply for asylum in The Netherlands Nieuwsblad reports.
After the man showered he demanded money from Vanderlee, and when he refused a skirmish followed.
He reportedly lunged at the priest, whose hands were slashed in the confrontation.
The assailant fled the scene.
The priest was rushed to hospital but is not believed to be in a serious condition.
The attack happened at around 2.40pm local time.
The mayor of Lanake, Marino Keulen, said: “Despite the fact that we
are shocked, we must stress that this incident can not be linked to
terrorist acts at this stage of the investigation.”
At this stage it is not believed that the attacker was from the asylum centre in Lanaken.
Police have launched an investigation into the attack.
The pastor had recently celebrated his 40th year in the church and is responsible for eight parishes in the local area.thesun.co.uk

This is the way the West dies
This is the way the West dies
This is the way the West dies
Not with a bang but a whimper.
This is nothing new, however. Way back in 2002, a French edition of my book Islam Unveiled was canceled for fear of offending Muslims.

A Paris-based publishing house has revised its decision
to publish a French version of the German bestseller “Der Islamische
Faschismus” (The Islamic Fascism). Written by German-Egyptian author
Hamed Abdel-Samad, the book was due to hit the French bookstores in
September. Piranha Edition reportedly changed its mind after this
month’s ISIS-inspired terror attack in Nice that killed 84 people and
injured more than 300.
If the objective of Islamist violence in Europe had been to force the
continent into submission, it is well on its way to achieving them.
Piranha Edition justified the decision of not going ahead with the
publication by citing the threat of Radical Islam as well its desire of
not wanting to strengthen the right-wing French groups critical of
Islam. Interestingly, the head office of the Piranha Edition is
just within a few minutes of walk from Bataclan, the theatre where 89
people were murdered by Islamic terrorists in November 2016.
Earlier this week, Hamed Abdel-Samad revealed the details of the failed book deal in a German-language blog Die Achse des Guten:

First the publisher changed the title from “The Islamic
Fascism” to “Is Islam a form of Fascism?” — in order to avoid
unnecessary polarisation. But after the attack in Nice, the publishing
house decided not to publish the book at all, as it fearful of the
consequence — as stated in [their] email — which could have been deadly.
There could be another attack like the one at Charlie Hebdo.
Had the publisher ended the email just there, I could understand, as
it is a matter of life and death, and I cannot ask everyone to take the
risk that I take with my book.
But then came the second argument why the publication was not
possible at this point. The book could benefit the right wing [parties].
[Author’s translation]

Whenever Islamic terrorism strikes somewhere in the West, media
commentators and politicians always love to talk about the ‘moderate
Muslims’ living among us. We are endlessly reminded of the “voices” of
moderation, reason and peace within Islam. Hamed Abdel-Samad is just
such one such genuine voice being stifled in the West. And he is not
alone; Somali-born women’s rights advocate Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Pakistani
writer Ibn Warraq, Bangladeshi novelist Taslima Nasrin are just some of
the true Muslim voices of reason and sanity of our times.
These few, but brave women and men are not only forced to live like
hunted fugitives in the West by Islamists determined to enforce Fatwa
placed on their heads, but driven into silence by leftists enforcing
accepted speech codes on college campuses and public arena.
Given the almost omnipresent threat of violence inside the Muslim
majority countries, we can give up on our hopes of hearing any
substantial criticism of Islamist theology from within the Muslim World.
But what is happening to Muslim dissenters in the West is no less
sinister. The violent campaign to shut down any opposition in the Muslim
World is complimented in the West by the activism of the Left.
On the other hand, the mainstream media is more interested in talking
to the representatives of Islam who are eager to talk about
‘Islamophobia’, or the Western guilt, but not about the theology behind
the ongoing worldwide Jihad….

Around 50,000 supporters of Turkey’s Islamist president Recep Tayyip
Erdoğan have rallied in Cologne, Germany to demand his authoritarian
reign continues.
The Islamist crowd chanted “Allah hu Akbar!” and held signs reading, “Erdoğan is a human rights activist”, whilst opponents waved banners insisting “Stop the Erdomania!”Members of the Turkish-nationalist, fascist-leaning “Grey Wolves” group were among the crowd that gathered on banks of the Rhine River with the city’s huge gothic cathedral in the background.
The German Federal Constitutional Court banned the live broadcasting of Mr. Erdogan’s speech at the rally, Deutsche Welle reports.
Some Germans reacted furiously to the huge Islamist rally in the
country’s fourth largest city, and groups ranging from far-left
“anti-fascists”, neo-Nazis and Kurdish separatists held
counter-demonstrations.
One angry Cologne resident was caught on video insulting the supporters of political Islam, calling them “crazy” and “fascists”.More...

Freedom Party candidate Norbert Hofer has widened his lead in a Gallup poll ahead of October’s repeat election for the Austrian presidency.
Hofer lost by a whisker in May to former Greens party leader Alexander van der Bellen in an election that Austria’s constitutional court this month ordered re-run given vote count irregularities.
A series of Islamist attacks in Europe and Britain’s decision to leave the EU since the original vote have shuffled the political deck in neutral Austria.
The poll published by the Oesterreich paper on Sunday showed the midpoint of the wide range of support for Hofer at 52 percent — one point higher than a poll in early July found — versus 48 percent for van der Bellen.
Fifty-seven percent of the 600 respondents cited Hofer’s personality as the most important factor, followed by “protection from terror” at 56 percent and “more stringent asylum policy” at 55 percent, the paper said.
The poll also showed the anti-Islam and eurosceptic Freedom Party (FPO) with record-high 35 percent support, far ahead of the governing coalition partners: the Social Democrats at 25 percent and conservative People’s Party at 19 percent.
FPO leader Heinz Christian Strache has repeatedly accused d the government of taking too soft a line on Europe’s migrant crisis, which the FPO says has exposed Austria to danger.
In an interview with Oesterreich, Strache demanded EU sanctions to punish Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan for what Strache called anti-democratic crackdowns on opponents after a failed coup.
“What we need are an immediate halt to (EU) membership negotiations and payments worth billions, as well as sanctions finally. If the EU’s hypocritical policy sees the introduction of the death penalty announced by Erdogan as a red line, that is pure cynicism. The red line was crossed long ago,” he said.
Hofer, 45, lost out in May by just 31,000 votes to pro-Europe candidate van der Bellen, 72. But Austria’s highest court annulled the vote, finding that sloppiness in the count, while not intended to manipulate any votes, had potentially been serious enough to change the outcome.
If successful, he would be the first far-right head of state in a European Union country.breitbart

When European politicians insist that Islam is a part of Europe, they should be reminded of just what exactly that means.

A hardline Muslim preacher suspected of radicalising three British
jihadis told teenage disciples that it is ‘permissible’ under Islam to
have sex slaves.
The cleric’s extraordinary preachings were
recorded secretly at a halaqa, or religious study circle, at the
Al-Manar mosque by an undercover reporter. The event was publicised by
posters mimicking the famous British wartime propaganda slogan,
declaring Keep Calm And Come To Halaqa. Fringed by drawings of sports
equipment, the poster added: ‘Brothers Only, Ideal age 13-18. Followed
by indoor football.’
He tells them: ‘One of the
interpretations as to what this means is that towards the end of time
there will be many wars like what we are seeing today, and because of
these wars women will be taken as captives, as slaves, yeah, women will
be taken as slaves.
‘And then, er, her master has relations
with her because this is permissible in Islam, it’s permissible to have
relations with a woman who is your slave or your wife.’

That is true. And this is one of those areas where Islamic law and
morals are in conflict with law and morals in the free world. And,
sooner or later, we will all have to choose.frontpagemag

AUSTRIA has unveiled plans to build a massive
100km fence along its border to stop migrants and refugees crossing into
the country.
Engineers in the central European state have finalised plans for the
vast barrier, which would stretch along its entire southern border with
Hungary.
Austria has repeatedly clashed with Brussels over its clampdown on
illegal migration and has already put a daily cap on the number of
people who can claim asylum.
And earlier this year the country’s parliament voted through a motion
allowing it to declare a state of emergency if migrant numbers suddenly
rise, meaning it could instantly shut its borders.
The new border fence will mark a considerable escalation in Austria’s
physical attempts to bring down migration, with the country only having
constructed one small 4km fence along its border with Slovenia to date.
State officials have reached agreements with hundreds of landowners
along the 100km stretch of border which will allow the fence to be put
up in record time should the number of refugees increase again,
according to a police spokesman.
Austria is on the Balkan migration route to the ‘promised lands’ of
Germany and Sweden, where most asylum seekers arriving in Europe want to
settle and start a better life.

SHOCKING police figures released for England and Wales have shown more than 900 Syrians have been arrested in just one year.And officials say the migrants were accused of sickening crimes including rapes and child abuse.
Now critics say they are concerned that the thousands of Syrians entering Britain each year under resettlement schemes are being allowed to enter the country unchecked.
Among those arrested are four Syrian immigrants have been charged after two 14-year-old girls were allegedly sexually assaulted - just yards from Newcastle United's stadium. The UK Government is working to resettle up to 20,000 Syrian refugees in the UK by the end of the Parliament in 2020, under its Syrian Vulnerable Person Resettlement scheme.
Official statistics show that 1,602 people had been resettled in the UK under the scheme by the end of March 2016.
According to Parliamentary research paper it is possible for Syrians to claim asylum upon arrival or after-entry to the UK.It states: "Syrian nationals were the sixth-largest group of asylum applicants in the year ending March 2016, 2,539 main applicants.
"87 per cent of initial asylum decisions in Syrian cases gave permission to remain in the UK.
"The UK Government continues to commit a significant amount of international aid to assistance programmes in the regions neighbouring Syria, arguing that this is preferable to encouraging Syrian refugees to make dangerous journeys to Europe.
"The UK has committed over £2.3 billion to helping refugees in Syria and the region, making it the second largest bilateral donor to the Syrian refugee crisis."
But UKIP MEP Ray Finch has said: "The Government seems have not to have vetted those it has invited into the country."
Earlier this year the UK government invited world leaders to discuss the continued crisis in war torn Syria.
Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, British Prime Minister David Cameron, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon attended a symposium in London where they discussed the refugee crisis.express

On 26 July, the northern French town of Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray witnessed a horrific Islamist attack:
Two Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists killed an 85-year-old priest,
Jacques Hamel, in his church during Mass. Two nuns and two churchgoers
were taken hostage.
The terrorists, who had pledged allegiance to ISIS and, shouting
"Allahu Akbar", slit the throat of the priest and captured the bloody
episode on video, according to a nun who escaped the assault.
Such Islamist attacks might be new to EU member countries but not to
Turkey. For decades, so many innocent, defenseless Christians in Turkey
have been slaughtered by Muslim assailants.
Christians in Turkey are still attacked, murdered or threatened daily; the assailants usually get away with their crimes.
In Malatya, in 2007, during the Zirve Bible Publishing House massacre,
three Christian employees were attacked, severely tortured, then had
their hands and feet tied and their throats cut by five Muslims on April
18, 2007.
Nine years have passed, but there still has been no justice for the families of the three men who were murdered so savagely.
First, the five suspects who were still in detention were released from their high-security prison by a Turkish court, which ruled that their detention exceeded newly-adopted legal limits.
The trial is still ongoing. The prosecutor claims
that the act "was not a terrorist act because the perpetrators did not
have a hierarchic bond, their act was not continuous and the knives they
used in the massacre did not technically suffice to make the act be
regarded as a terrorist act."
If the court accepts this legal opinion of the prosecutor, it could
pave the way for an acquittal. However, given the many "mysterious"
rulings of the Turkish judiciary system to acquit criminals, these
killers could also be acquitted by a "surprise" ruling any time.
Ironically, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in March
that it is necessary to redefine terrorism to include those who support
such acts, adding that they could be journalists, lawmakers or
activists. There was no difference, he said, between "a terrorist
holding a gun or a bomb and those who use their position and pen to
serve the aims" of terrorists.
In a country where state authorities are outspokenly so "sensitive"
about "terrorism" and "people holding guns," why are the murderers of
Christians not in jail, and why is the prosecutor trying to portray the
murders of Christians as "non-terroristic acts"?
Sadly, the three Christians in Malatya were neither the first nor the last Christians to be murdered in Turkey.
On February 5, 2006, Father Andrea Santoro, a 61-year-old Roman
Catholic priest, was murdered in the Santa Maria Church in the province
of Trabzon. He was shot while kneeling
in prayer at his church. Witnesses heard the 16-year-old murderer shout
"Allahu Akbar" ("Allah is the Greatest") during the murder.
After the murder, a 74-year-old priest, Father Pierre François René
Brunissen, from Samsun, led the next church service in Santoro's church,
which boasted barely a dozen members. Because no one volunteered to
replace Santoro, Father Pierre was instructed to travel from Samsun to Trabzon each month to care for the city's small congregation.
"This is a terrible incident," Father Pierre said. "It is a sin to kill a person. After all of these incidents, I am worried about my life here."
In July, 2006, he was stabbed and wounded by a Muslim in Samsun. The perpetrator, 53, said that he stabbed the priest to oppose "his missionary activities."[1]
The attacks against the Christian culture in Anatolia continue in
modern times -- even after Turkey joined the Council of Europe in 1949
and NATO in 1952.
Turkey's countless agreements with Western organizations do not seem
to have reduced the hatred for Christians there. In March, 2007, as the
Christian community of Mersin was preparing for the Easter, a young
Muslim man with a kebab knife entered the church and attacked the priests, Roberto Ferrari and Henry Leylek.Mersin,
in southern Turkey, is home to Tarsus, the birthplace of Saint Paul,
and to several churches dating from the earliest Christian era.
As the Christian roots of Anatolia weakened, so did its bonds with
Western civilization. "The attack against the priest is an indicator
that Ankara is not ready for Europe," a Roman Catholic Cardinal and
theologian, Walter Kasper, told the Italian newspaper, Corriere della Sera.
"There is some amount of tolerance but there is not real freedom.
Turkey has to change many things. This change is not about laws. A
change of mentality is needed. But you cannot change mentality in one
day."
Bishop Luigi Padovese, Apostolic Vicar of Anatolia, said:
"We do not feel safe. I am very worried. Fanaticism is developing in
some groups. Some people want to poison the atmosphere and catholic
priests are targeted. Anti-missionary films are broadcast on TV
channels."
At a commemorative ceremony for Father Santoro in February, Bishop Padovese said:

"Today, we are asking the question we asked four years
ago: Why? We are also asking the same question for all other victims so
unjustly murdered even though they were innocent. Why? What was it that
they tried to destroy by murdering Father Andrea? Just a person or what
that person represented? The aim of shooting Father Andrea was
definitely to shoot a Catholic cleric. His being a Father became the
reason of his martyrdom.
"The message of Christ on the cross is clear. 'Father, forgive them,
for they do not know what they do.' Had they known, they would not have
done that. It is wrong to extinguish a life to uphold an idea. It is
wrong to think that a person who disagrees with us is at fault and
should be destroyed. This is the fundamentalism that crumbles a society.
For it wrecks coexistence. This fundamentalism -- regardless of what
religion or political view it belongs to -- might win a few battles but
it is doomed to lose the war. This is what history teaches us. I hope
that this city and this country will turn into a place where people can
live as brothers and sisters and unite for the common good for all. Is
the Allah of all of us not the same?"

No, unfortunately, the Allah of all of us is not the same.
Just four months later, in June, 2010, it was Padovese's turn to be murdered.
This time the murderer was the Bishop's own driver for the previous
four years. The driver first stabbed the bishop, then cut his throat,
while shouting "Allahu Akbar" during the attack.
At the trial, the driver said that the bishop was "Masih ad-Dajjal" ("the false messiah"), then twice in the courtroom he loudly recited the adhan (Islamic call to worship).
In the territory where Christians once thrived, even converting to Christianity now creates serious problems.
"New Christians coming from Muslim families are often isolated and ostracized," writes Carnes.
"Turgay Ucal, a pastor of an independent church in Istanbul, who
converted from Islam to Christianity said: "Buddhism is okay, but not
Christianity. There was a history."
And this history includes how indigenous Christians in Anatolia have been slaughtered by Muslims. [2]
The total population of Turkey
is about 80 million; believers of non-Muslim faiths -- mostly
Christians and Jews -- comprise 0.2%. Nevertheless, anti-Christian
sentiment is still prevalent in much of the Turkish society. [3]
There seems to be a pattern: Murders of Christians are committed
stealthily in Turkey: It is "ordinary people" who murder or attack
Christians, then the judiciary or political system somehow finds a way
of enabling the murderers or attackers to get away with what they have
done. Sadly, most of these crimes are not covered by the international
media, and Turkey is never held responsible.
Turkey, however, signed a Customs Union agreement with the European
Union in 1995 and was officially recognized as a candidate for full
membership in 1999. Negotiations for the accession of Turkey to the EU
are still ongoing.
How come a nation that has murdered or attacked so many Christians
throughout history, and which has not even apologized for these crimes,
is considered even a suitable candidate for EU membership?
Because of the threat of blackmail to flood Europe with Muslims? Turkey
will flood Europe with them anyway. There is even a name for it: Hijrah, spreading Islam (jihad) by emigration. Exactly as Muslims have done inside Turkey.
And what kind of a culture and civilization have many Muslims built
for the most part in the lands that they have conquered? When one
observes the historical and current situation in Muslim-majority
countries, what one mostly sees are murders, attacks and hatred: Hatred
of non-Muslims, hatred of women, hatred of free thought and an extremely
deep hatred of everything that is not Islamic. Many Muslims that have
moved to the West have been trying to import political Islam to the free
world, as well.
Muslim regimes including Turkey have not achieved civilized
democratization that would enable all of their citizens -- Muslims and
non-Muslims -- to live free and safe lives.
While Muslims are pretty much free to practice their religion and express their views on other
religions or on atheism anywhere in the world, Christians and other
non-Muslims can be killed in Turkey and other Muslim-majority countries
just for attempting peacefully to practice their religion or openly
express their views.
"Multiculturalism," which is passionately defended by many liberals
in the West, could have worked wonders in multi-ethnic and
multi-religious places such as Anatolia. But unfortunately, Islamic
ideology allows only one culture, one religion, and one way of thinking
under their rule: Islam. Ironically, this is the central fact these
liberals do not want to see.
Much of the history of Islam shows that the nature of Islamic
ideology is to invade or infiltrate, and then to dominate non-Muslims.
In general, Muslims have never shown the slightest interest in
peaceful coexistence with non-Muslims. Even if most Muslims are not
jihadis, most do not speak out against jihadist attacks. Many thus
appear quietly to support jihadis. That there are also peaceful Muslim
individuals who respect other faiths does not change this tragic fact.
That is why non-Muslims in the West have every right to fear one day
being exposed to the same treatment at the hands of Muslims. The fear
non-Muslims have of Islamic attacks is, based on recent evidence, both
rational and justified.
Given how unspeakably non-Muslims are treated in majority Muslim
countries, including Turkey, who can blame them for being concerned
about the possible Islamization of their own free societies?
Why does Turkey, which seems to hate its own Christians, want to have visa-free access to Christian Europe, anyway?More...

Bavaria’s premier, whose state bore the brunt of recent attacks in Germany, took aim at Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open-door refugee policy on Saturday by rejecting her “we can do this” mantra.
The comments from Horst Seehofer, whose Christian Social Union is the Bavarian sister party of Merkel’s conservatives, exacerbate the chancellor’s difficulty in standing by a policy that her critics have blamed for the attacks and which risks undermining her popularity before federal elections next year.
“‘We can do this’ – I cannot, with the best will, adopt this phrase as my own,” Seehofer told reporters after a meeting of his party.
Five attacks in Germany since July 18 have left 15 people dead, including four assailants, and dozens injured. Two of the attackers had links to Islamist militancy, officials say. Germany is wrestling with how to respond.
Jens Spahn, deputy finance minister and a senior member of Merkel’s conservatives, said that integrating the refugees was a Herculean task but the government needed to put more pressure on those new arrivals unwilling to make an effort to fit in.
“A ban on the full body veil – that is the niqab and the burka – is overdue,” he told daily Die Welt. “My impression is that we all underestimated a year ago what would come upon us with this big refugee and migration movement.”
Over a million migrants have entered Germany in the past year, many fleeing war in Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq.
In an editorial, magazine Der Spiegel noted that the government of Helmut Schmidt, who served as chancellor from 1974 to 1982, toughened laws to combat the ultra-leftist Red Army Faction, which attacked the political and business elite, but added: “the terrorists nonetheless carried on bombing.”
The comments from Seehofer, who said following the latest attacks that “all our predictions have been proven right”, came after Merkel on Thursday defiantly repeated “we can do this” and vowed not to bend her refugee policy.
“The problem is too big for that and the attempts at a solution thus far too unsatisfactory,” said Seehofer. “Restrictions on immigration are a condition for security in this country.”
Merkel on Thursday set out a nine-point plan to respond to the attacks, including an early warning system for the radicalisation of refugees.
She faced criticism on social media after failing to react until the next day to the bloodiest of the attacks, in Munich, where an 18-year-old German-Iranian gunman killed nine people.breitbart

20th century French intellectuals have a lot of blood on their hands. Their
theories about the necessity of violence in order to establish a
society characterized by the ideals of egalité, liberté, and fraternité
were once debated in civilized and abstract terms in the comfortable
armchairs of academia and civilized salons of Paris. A
lifelong supporter of violence and tyranny, Jean-Paul Sartre repeatedly
called for the violent overthrow of bourgeois society. He supported
Stalin, Mao Tse-tung, and the killing of civilian Europeans by Algeria’s
FLN. It would be the philosophy of Sartre that fed the violence of Pol
Pot, who exterminated about one third of Cambodia’s populace. Abstract
ideas discussed and taught in civilized France became realities writ in
blood by third-world dictators.The
Iranian Islamist revolution also found its intellectual origins in
France, where the Ayatollah Khomeini was granted exile. Infused with
rage by radical intellectuals, Khomeini plotted the Islamist takeover of
Iran, eventually returning there in 1979, from whence America and the
world would see blindfolded hostages paraded on television.In
short, revolutions encouraged by French and other European
intellectuals were actualized but mostly watched safely from afar. But
now those abstract ideas about the necessity of revolutions that spill
blood are coming back to bite as radical Islamists believing in the
killing of their enemies strike at Paris and France itself; most
recently in the form of violence against eighty-five-year-old parish
priest Jacques Hamel, whose throat was slit by a jihadist as the frail
old man was performing the sacrament of the Mass.The
jihadist attempt to symbolically behead Christianity by slitting the
throat of a pious Catholic priest should come as no surprise to France,
whose leaders profess themselves to be shocked and outraged at the
recent incident, and who are warning about a religious war between
Muslims and Christians.But
the war in France is not being and will not be fostered by Christians,
whose presence and influence in France and most of Europe is
subterranean and largely pacifist -- by design. They have been subdued
as a cultural influence in France, which was once a profoundly Christian
nation.No,
the real war is between the ruling secularist class of France and
Islamists. Christians are merely a convenient and usual target of
Islamists. The
intellectual descendants of the radical thinkers who were so fond of
decapitating the Church and the aristocracy must not be surprised to
find those Islamists who embrace their tenets for violent revolution now
call for their beheading. They should not be surprised to find their
own necks under the guillotine.Those same modern-day philosophes
also should not indulge themselves in intellectual chicanery, seeking
to turn the present grisly narrative into a fairy tale of renewed
religious warfare -- while the now thoroughly bourgeois and established
secularists stand by as neutral innocents who deplore both religions for
violence. No,
it was and still is French intellectuals, the modern secularist
replacement for priests, who implicitly allowed this bloodbath by
targeting Christianity for destruction. Father Hamel is dead because
France has seen no overwhelming reason to protect Christianity.The
fact of the matter is that secularist France has long been opposed and
still is opposed to Christianity, having waged war against it for over
two hundred years. The French Revolution itself was the culmination of
decades of anti-Christian polemics by French philosophes. Anti-Christian
sentiment erupted into violence against the Catholic Church, which was effectively guillotined and replaced by a civil religion. The
radical ideas of the philosophes of the so-called Enlightenment were
discussed in aristocratic French salons long before the Revolution of
1789 exploded in bloodshed and carnage worthy of ISIS savagery. Eric von Kuehnelt-Leddihn’s “Operation Parricide: Sade, Robespierre & the French Revolution”
gives a succinct account of some of the horrors visited on France by
the revolutionists. Jihadists can only admire and imitate. As
Kuehnelt-Leddihn notes:

“General Westerman reported to the welfare committee:‘There
is no more Vendee, my republican fellow citizens! …According to your
orders, the children were trampled to death beneath the hoofs of our
horses; their women were slaughtered so that they couldn’t bring any
more soldiers into the world. The streets are full of corpses; in many
places they form entire pyramids. In Savenay we had to make use of
massive firing squads because their troops are still surrendering. We
take no prisoners. One has to give them the bread of freedom; however,
mercy has nothing to do with the spirit of the revolution.”“Westerman, however, soon met his nemesis; he was guillotined a short time later with his friend Danton.“LeMans
was the scene of further brutality; women, the aged, and children
hiding in the houses of this large city were discovered… women and girls
were raped, and since there weren’t enough living females for the ‘boys
in blue,’ the corpses were violated as well… the mob quickly
decapitated another group of prisoners, among whom was a saintly,
82-year-old abbess.”

No,
mercy was not a characteristic of the French Revolution. Nor is it a
virtue of the intellectuals’ militant secularist faith pervading France.Those
horrors of the Revolution, as have twentieth-century horrors, had their
intellectual genesis in ideas discussed in eighteenth century salons,
one of the more famous of which was that of Madame de Pompadour, who
famously said, “After us, the deluge. I care not what happens when I am
dead and gone.” Madame de Pompadour supported Diderot’s Encyclopedia,
the heralded gateway to the Enlightenment -- the same Diderot who wrote,
“Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.”Diderot’s
prophetic comment about kings and priests provides a summary of the
thinking behind the Terror, which did indeed kill the nation’s king and
very nearly the aristocracy; and which also very nearly killed the
Catholic Church of France in an effort to exterminate Christianity from
France.Some
of the aristocratic talking heads who were habitués of the salons and
who advocated the death of the system of government and religion that
had characterized France for centuries -- and that could have perhaps
been reformed rather than destroyed utterly -- would later be sliced off
under the blade of the guillotine. Ideas once genteelly debated among
intellectuals and wannabe revolutionaries became reality as the blood of
both members of the intelligentsia and of the aristocracy mingled while
the Parisian mob looked on and cheered their demise.Now
we find a new French Revolution rising in Paris and beyond, one in
which the death of innocent civilians was openly encouraged by Sartre in
Algeria. Now we find jihadist revolutionaries, in France by the
invitation of France, crying out for the heads of State and Church. The
Terror has once again arrived in France. The tyranny of the idea of
violent revolution in order to achieve a “just” and “equal” society, so
long cherished by French intellectuals now threatens France (and indeed
Europe) itself.For
decades after decade, led by French atheists and secularists, the
governmental machinery of France has insisted the no religion is allowed
in public matters. In fact, any citizen who wishes to be considered a
good citizen almost certainly must a-religious. The consequence of the
exorcism of Christianity from public life and the quarantining of the
Christian spirit behind church doors has been a complete erosion of
Christian influence in French culture.If
secularist France wishes to avoid more massacres by Islamist jihadists
bent on destroying both secularists and Christians, it would do well to
take the governmental boot off the neck of Christianity, whose
foundational influence on French culture, though badly eroded and
weakened, should be recognized.It
is glaringly apparent that it is not Christians like the martyred
Father Jacques Hamel and his flock who are perpetrating violence in
France. It is not Christians who are attacking Jewish delis and crowded
theaters where helpless unarmed civilians were mutilated and
tortured. It was not a Christian who mowed down dozens of innocents on
Bastille Day.Christianity
is not the enemy of France, but a spiritual friend and guide still
intrinsic to her cultural makeup. It should not only be recognized and
unchained, but cultivated in order it be salt in a rotting culture.
Secularist France should take note of the ways the most militant strains
of Islam are determined to shape French culture in ways that will make
France unrecognizable within a very short time if they prevail. The
atheistic/secularist worldview that characterized the Enlightenment,
which became the impetus for the French Revolution and the Terror, which
has informed the top intellects of France for so long; and which is as
least partly responsible for the new Terror visited on France, has
proved a systematic failure in France and abroad.It
is time to admit the secularist and leftist worldview that has been
promulgated and exported by French and European intellectuals for
centuries, and which has been so instrumental in spreading violence and
chaos throughout the world, should repent of its heresies and to return
to the roots that once made France great and can make her great again.It
is time for France to release from secularist bondage and to actively
cultivate the Spirit of Christianity, which while its followers too
often transgressed against the Spirit of mercy, love and grace
characterizing Christ, at least that Spirit has been held up as the soul
of orthodox Christianity. That
Spirit once thoroughly informed French culture, a Spirit that created a
nation filled with monuments to Age of Faith. It is time to once again
look at and grant complete freedom of expression to the faith that
built Notre Dame and Chartres.Let’s hope and pray it isn’t too late to do so.

Ali
David Sonboly, the young man who shot up Munich last week, killing 9
mostly young people and wounding dozens of others, is driving the
mainstream media nuts. It’s so bad, they can’t even decide what they
want to call him. Is it Ali David Sonboly, or David Ali Sonboy, or just David Sonboy, as the primly and properly PC BBC tried to have it?But now it’s really getting confusing. As this article from the Mirror,
among many others, now reports, Sonboly “reportedly saw it as an
‘honour’ that he had the same birthday as the Nazi leader [Hitler] -
April 20,” “was proud to be a German-Iranian ‘Aryan,’” and “felt
‘superior’ to those of either [Turk or Arab] origin.” These discoveries
greatly aggravate the already severe disorientation that the MSM has
suffered over his motives. It seems that some among them think Sonboly
was a neo-Nazi Irano-Aryan acolyte of Breivik – anything, please, but a
Muslim.So, was this young man just a “lazy” and “chubby”
misfit who moved from depression to derangement and then obsession with
mass murder for fascist reasons, or was he acting out of some
influence of radical Islam? Or aren’t both possible?Let’s
go back to the Mirror’s points and unpack them, particularly for the
benefit of those in the MSM who have delicate sensibilities about all
things Islamic and Muslim and who avert their eyes from anything
critical of their precious pet community. Here are some rather simple
points from Islamic history.Islamism, the revivalist version of Islam supported by large numbers of Muslims worldwide, borrows heavily from both communism and fascism. Eric Hoffer explained all that back in the 1950s.
More explicitly, there were close historical alliances between the
Nazis and the radical Muslims of the day. Amin al-Husseini, the Grand
Mufti of Jerusalem, had ties to Hitler,
helped Himmler recruit Muslim troops for the SS, and collaborated with
the Nazis on paramilitary operations in the Mideast. In recent times, Muslim clerics have praised the Nazis’ extermination of Jews even while trying to deny the Holocaust. At the same time, the Iranian government
has regularly indulged in Holocaust denial while holding Israel and
Jews to be anathema. It should therefore not be surprising that someone
proud of his Muslim heritage should also feel proud of sharing a
birthday with Hitler – while still having nothing the do with the bête noir of the Left, the political “far Right.”Speaking
of Iran, in light of Sonboly’s Iranian heritage it is not surprising
that he would be prejudiced against mostly Sunni Arabs and Turks. The
simplest explanation might be that he resented being bullied by Arab and Turk classmates.
Yet there could easily be much more than that. Turks and Arabs are the
ancient enemies of the Iranians, particularly since the rise of Islam
and the almost immediate schism of the community into its Sunni and
Shi’a parties. If he had merely listened to his elders, not to mention
studied his ancestral history, he could easily have absorbed these
atavistic prejudices. In having them, he certainly wouldn’t be alone
among Iranians – or vice versa.
Moreover, his Sunni Turkish and Arab classmates who bullied him could
even have been expressing their own atavistic animosities towards
Shi’ites. After all, this circle of secular hate has been rotating for
1,400 years. Why should it not come to Europe with the migrants?As
for his reported affection for the idea that he was Aryan, a
dog-whistle to Leftists in the MMS and reported in several outlets, the
answer is quite simple: the word Iran is derived from the root of the word “Aryan” and the Iranians proudly see themselves as an Aryan people.Thus
there is nothing particularly surprising about Sonboly’s affinity for
Hitler, given his Muslim heritage, nor about his prejudices against
Sunni Muslims, nor his self-identification as an Aryan. Nor is it
surprising that he has not been connected to ISIS or al-Qaeda, since
they are virulently anti-Shi’a Sunni groups. Yet that doesn’t mean that
he wasn’t religiously inspired to commit terrorizing murder, nor would
such zealous inspiration rule out mental illness. This combination has
been noted in numerous other Muslim terrorists.What
is unusual is that a youth with this Shi’a Iranian background went
ballistic. In the West, we’ve become so used to the much more common
narrative of a Sunni kid going on a rampage that we don’t expect it to
happen with a Shi’ite in countries such as Germany – perhaps because there are so few of them. Well, maybe we now have to start recognizing that Shi’ites too can go on sudden jihad.All
that said, we still don’t know for sure what role, if any, radical
Islamic teachings played in this tragedy. Perhaps we’ll find out from
Sonboly’s 16-year-old Afghanistani-immigrant friend who was arrested for
not revealing his plans. There’s considerable evidence pointing to a
role of Islam, but the German authorities must first complete their
investigations and then we must depend on them to report the facts.
Given that they – along with many members of the global MMS – seem to
have been loath to connect Islam to attacks
ranging from the mass sexual assaults on the past New Year’s Eve to the
most recent spate of attacks, it is not a foregone conclusion that they
will release the facts.There
is a strong and natural tendency to want to find simple explanations,
particularly ones that fit with one’s ideological preferences. The
simplest and most comforting explanation in the MSM and much of the
Western ruling elites for the rising tide of terror is that Islamic
terrorism is rare, linked tightly to a few Salafist Sunni organizations
such as ISIS and al-Qaeda (which, supposedly and conveniently are on the
run), and that it is a perversion of Islam. When incidents don’t fit
this comfortable narrative, the MSM and authorities go to great lengths
either to make them fit or to disqualify them as anything related to
Islam.There
are many reasons for this behavior, but two major political initiatives
are playing critical roles at the moment. One is that the European
authorities don’t want to admit that the migrant crisis is allowing
dangerous people into their populations. Angela Merkel reinforced this
in her press conference on July 28, reaffirming her determination to keep Germany’s borders open to migrants.The
other is that the European governments and the US have made an enormous
bet on the Iranian government being – or at least becoming – moderate,
so it would be very inconvenient to find that Shi’ites also can become
radicalized terrorists in our midst.If
the tragedy in Munich finally forces people to wake up to the facts
about what we’re facing, there will be at least a small silver lining.

Saturday, July 30, 2016

Speaking to Polish television, a former member of Poland’s
counter-terror police and an academic expert on information warfare and
terrorism have articulated their concern about the intellectual and
spiritual collapse of European civilisation, remarking it is “at the end
of its existence”.
Former Central Bureau of Investigation (CBS) officer Jacek Wrona
and military history academic Dr. Rafał Brzeski were guests on the
Polish TVP Info programme discussing the Munich shooting in which nine
were killed, and were forced to conclude it was a symptom of the end of
European Civilisation. Information warfare expert Dr. Brzeski rejected
the suggestion in German media that the Munich killer — an 18 year old
Muslim — was mad, pointing out the killing had “an element of planning”,
reports wPolityce.
As for the treatment of the attack in the mainstream media, the
academic said it was a case of the “ministry of propaganda at work… it
is self-censorship. There is nothing worse than self-censorship in
journalism”. Rejecting the reluctance of mainstream media to recognise
the killings as a terrorism, he said: “this is definitely an act of
terror… the execution of an act of terrorism. He was setting out to
scare people, and that is an act of terror”.
Pre-empting the emergency press conference held by German Chancellor
Angela Merkel in which she said her government stood by its policies and
decisions which helped create the migrant crisis, and recognising the
frustration of the German people with this approach, the academic
remarked: “The Germans have had enough of this, which does not mean the
government has had enough. These are two different approaches”.
Former specialist counter-terror police officer Mr. Wrona expressed
his deep concerns for the future of Europe on the back of a summer of
terror attacks across France and Germany. Noting the phenomenon of free
movement of people across Europe which has effectively meant free
movement of illegal ex-Soviet weapons
from Eastern to Western Europe, the security expert said: “The whole
Balkans are flooded with weapons, and from the Balkans have come two
million people.
“Together with them came arms dealers, gangsters, drug dealers.
Buying a Kalashnikov [Soviet automatic rifle] in Bosnia and Herzegovina
is as it was with us after the war. You can buy one for peanuts”.
But the free flow of guns and grenades West is not the main problem
Europe faces said the officer. Pointing to the existential crisis of a
lack of faith and confidence, Mr. Wrona said: “The worst problem for
[the police service] is political correctness… Europe is at the end of
its existence. Western Europe is practically dead. These people live in a
void, without ideas. And then come along the young, who [only want] to
make money, as once did the barbarians”.
Polish politicians and public figures have consistently been at the
forefront of robust responses to the Europe migrant crisis. Breitbart
London reported
the remarks of Poland’s interior minister Mariusz Blaszczak after the
Islamist Nice attacks that saw 84 killed this month when he said
multiculturalism, immigration, and political correctness were
responsible for the killing. Earlier this year popular Polish magazine
wSIECI splashed on the “Islamic rape of Europe” with a graphic front
cover which was shared around the world as mainstream media reacted in
horror to the frank discussion of the “clash of two civilisations in the
countries of old Europe”.breitbart

Professor Krystyna Pawłowicz, a Polish
parliamentarian from the ruling PiS (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, or Law and
Justice) party and one of the more prominent eurosceptic voices in the
Polish parliament, has lead the chorus of disapproval against the failed
German and EU immigration policy this week, which culminated in Poland
demanding answers from Germany in the wake of the murder of a Polish
citizen in Ansbach last Sunday and the numerous other terrorist acts.
The conservative MP has picked up on the
fact the Germans went to great lengths to “cover up the crimes of their
Arab guests, or even shift the blame upon themselves” ever since their
arrival, for the sake of keeping the German public on Merkel’s side.

Prof. Pawłowicz further pointed out how
in the interest of keeping the lefty spirits up, the “Berlin Gay Pride
event went ahead despite the mourning in Munich”, suggesting the Germans
have already adjusted to the “new normal” of living with terrorism
without even being instructed by their politicians to do so. That is in
complete contrast to how the French dismissed the advice to “live with
terrorism” by Manuel Valls.

“Europe is ill and bleeding. We [Poland]
survive with God’s help” said Prof Pawłowicz in the context of the World
Youth Day celebrated by the Catholic youth currently converged from all
over the world in Krakow, whilst pointing to the “white flag” and
“colour pencil protest” attitude in France, Belgium and Germany, all of
whom “rejected God in favour of a misunderstood liberty”.

Picking up on the German CDU
parliamentary deputy Armin Schuster’s statement that “Germany needs a
culture of farewell (Abschiedskultur), as opposed to the culture of
welcome (Wilkommenskultur)” Pawłowicz expressed her doubts that the
“German culture still has it in it to win against the alien culture in
the struggle for the European territory which we are witnessing”.

Commenting on Pope Francis’ homily in
Krakow about “strengthening of Catholics’ faith”, Pawłowicz implored
that Poles “should continue to defend the Cross and continue to help the
needy in the geographic locations where the help is needed”.

She made clear, however, that it is a
Polish duty “to defend the Cross, not the Crescent” and that “if the
Poles don’t survive in Poland [due to the immigrant invasion spearheaded
by Merkel], then no one else will defend the Cross in their place”; a powerful statement from a declared Catholic, and yet another Catholic voice seemingly at odds with Pope Francis’.

These comments were made before Angela
Merkel reinforced her stance on support for the uncontrolled
immigration, despite the clear failure of that policy. Hence, even more
criticism should be expected from Poland in the coming days.breitbart

Bavaria’s premier, whose state bore the brunt of recent attacks in Germany, took aim at Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open-door refugee policy on Saturday by rejecting her “we can do this” mantra.
The comments from Horst Seehofer, whose Christian Social Union is the Bavarian sister party of Merkel’s conservatives, exacerbate the chancellor’s difficulty in standing by a policy that her critics have blamed for the attacks and which risks undermining her popularity before federal elections next year.
“‘We can do this’ – I cannot, with the best will, adopt this phrase as my own,” Seehofer told reporters after a meeting of his party.
Five attacks in Germany since July 18 have left 15 people dead, including four assailants, and dozens injured. Two of the attackers had links to Islamist militancy, officials say. Germany is wrestling with how to respond.
Jens Spahn, deputy finance minister and a senior member of Merkel’s conservatives, said that integrating the refugees was a Herculean task but the government needed to put more pressure on those new arrivals unwilling to make an effort to fit in.
“A ban on the full body veil – that is the niqab and the burka – is overdue,” he told daily Die Welt. “My impression is that we all underestimated a year ago what would come upon us with this big refugee and migration movement.”
Over a million migrants have entered Germany in the past year, many fleeing war in Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq.
In an editorial, magazine Der Spiegel noted that the government of Helmut Schmidt, who served as chancellor from 1974 to 1982, toughened laws to combat the ultra-leftist Red Army Faction, which attacked the political and business elite, but added: “the terrorists nonetheless carried on bombing.”
The comments from Seehofer, who said following the latest attacks that “all our predictions have been proven right”, came after Merkel on Thursday defiantly repeated “we can do this” and vowed not to bend her refugee policy.
“The problem is too big for that and the attempts at a solution thus far too unsatisfactory,” said Seehofer. “Restrictions on immigration are a condition for security in this country.”
Merkel on Thursday set out a nine-point plan to respond to the attacks, including an early warning system for the radicalisation of refugees.
She faced criticism on social media after failing to react until the next day to the bloodiest of the attacks, in Munich, where an 18-year-old German-Iranian gunman killed nine people.Breitbart London

Police in Austria have begun visiting asylum homes across the
country to check for signs of radicalisation among the residents to
prevent potential future terror attacks.
Colonel Friedrich Kovar is head of a twelve-man task force
which enters asylum homes to check for early warning signs of Islamic
radicalisation and potential links to terrorist groups among asylum
seekers in Austria.
The “early warning system” is a new scheme by the Austrian Home
Office to root out potential Islamic radicals and Islamic State fighters
living in asylum homes. The programme has received criticism, but many
justify the programme after it was revealed that the Ansbach failed suicide bomber was also an asylum seeker, reportsKurier.
Colonel Kovar breaks down the practice of the team, saying that they
first speak to the staff at the asylum homes to see if any persons
posing potential risks have been identified. After talking with social
workers and others, they proceed to engage directly with any migrants
who have been flagged for risk, visiting them every other day. This way,
Mr. Kovar says, the police are able to get a feel for the people they
are interacting with and the various situations going on at the
location.
According to Mr. Kovar, the task force doesn’t just handle potential
terrorist offences; due to their proximity to the asylum homes they are
better able to deal with other offences that plague the homes including
drug abuse, sexual assaults, and violence. “Since we are close to the
daily events, we also recognise the potential problem cases faster,” he
said, and stressed that most investigations revolved around migrants,
like the bomber in Ansbach, whose asylum applications have been
rejected.
The early warning system has already had some success in the region
of Tyrol where officers were able to arrest three migrants who are
suspected of joining radical Islamist groups, though no evidence linked
them to the Islamic State specifically.
Karl-Heinz Grundböck, a spokesman for the Austrian Interior Ministry,
warned about potential public reaction regarding the programme saying:
“Not everyone who has received a negative asylum decision is a terrorist
or gunman. There must be no suspicion.”
His words echo those
of German Deputy government spokeswoman Ulrike Demmer, who said: “Most
terrorists who have committed attacks in recent months in Europe were
not refugees,” after it was revealed that the Ansbach bomber was an
asylum seeker.
The German Interior Ministry, while calling for Germans not to
suspect migrants of being linked to terror, was forced to admit that at
least 59 migrants were currently under investigation for terrorism links
and they estimated over 500 migrants could have connections to Islamist
organisations.
Earlier this year police and intelligence agencies were shocked at the size of Islamic State terror cells operating in Europe, and European police agency Europol has warned that more terror attacks will likely happen in the near future.breitbart

While politicians and journalists rush to tell Europeans that
rejecting mass migration from Muslim countries “is what ISIS wants”,
police in Italy and France are investigating Mohamed Bouhlel’s links to
No Borders activism.
Police are looking into videos uploaded by No Borders activists of
sit-ins and rallies in Ventimiglia, as among the protesters is a man who
they believe could be the Nice attacker who pledged allegiance to ISIS and slaughtered 84 people earlier this month.
Italian police have confirmed that they already identified the
terrorist as having been in Ventimiglia during clashes in June last
year. The authorities are looking into contacts Mr. Bouhlel has in
Italy. The Tunisian was stopped and identified in a routine check just
metres from Ponte San Ludovico, where left wing activists were demanding
Europe open its borders.
Last year it emerged
that a No Borders activist stationed at Ponte San Ludovico, in
Ventimiglia, was gang raped by African migrants but kept quiet about it
for a month. Her fellow protesters convinced her not to report the
attack as they feared it would set back their dream of a borderless
world.
The headline of the website of No Borders Ventimiglia reads: “From
Lampedusa to Calais we will not go back!” and condemns the fact that
migrants are “not free to move around Europe in search of a better
life”.
The website states that the group’s goal is for people to be allowed
to live wherever they choose. The activists say that Europe should not
distinguish between “economic migrants” and “refugees”, and instead provide “basic needs” of “earnings, a house and healthcare” to everyone who wants to come.
The news of the ISIS terrorist’s links to open borders activism has
already inflamed the political debate in Italy. Liguria governor
Giovanni Toti, wrote
on Facebook: “The Nice killer was in Ventimiglia at a demonstration in
favour of migrants. Does anyone still defend the indiscriminate
reception?”
The right wing Northern League party’s Liguria branch called for
“more stringent controls, and not only on illegal aliens but also on
their supporters”.
The news that Mr. Bouhlel may have been involved in open borders
activism contradicts the narrative repeated by Western journalists and
politicians in the wake of an onslaught of Islamic terror attacks in
Europe.
Former Greek finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, said that closed borders in Europe would fuel more terrorism, while German Chancellor Angela Merkel declared that ISIS’ goal is to break down Europeans’ “willingness and openness” to take in millions of migrants.
Writing for the European Council of Foreign relations, Mattia Toaldo claimed that:
“European xenophobes and the so-called Islamic State have a shared
goal: stopping the migration of Muslims to Europe”. Similarly, an
article in the Independent this week argued
that Angela Merkel’s “open-door immigration approach” was the best way
to protect the country from terror attacks. Germany this month saw four
horrific attacks in the space of a week, three of which were done by
recent migrants.breitbart

Four terror attacks in just one week, which have left dead and
wounded on trains, in shopping malls, streets and restaurants, probably
woke up Germany from a long sleep and its denial of reality. Nothing was
real, it only seemed to be so.
In 2004, Madrid was bombed to push
it to withdraw its soldiers from Iraq. In 2005, London was bombed
because of its alliance with the US in the war on terror. France has
been hit three times during the last year for its military interventions
in Africa, the cartoons on Mohammed and its secularism (the ban of
Islamic veil).
Since the Second World War II, Germany has devoted
itself to a militant pacifism trying to follow Winston Churchill’s
definition of the appeaser: “The one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it
will eat him last”.
First there was the German opposition to the
war in Iraq, when Gerhard Schröder and Dominique de Villepin used the
veto of the “old Europe” against the US intervention. Now German
parliamentarians, such as the Green Renate Künast, even criticized the
police for killing a terrorist after ax attack aboard a train in
Würzburg. “Couldn’t the assailant have been stopped without killing
him????”, asked Künast, with four question marks.
Germans
wanted to show that they were good again by atoning for the sense of
guilt for Nazism with the acceptance of million of foreigners.
Their culture, famous for naivete and self-righteousness, has been
infested with hatred for America.
The theater guru Peter Zadek
said that Americans are comparable to the Nazis. And the Gestapo lives
in Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib is the new Auschwitz and the NSA took over the
office of the Reich Security. A culture unable to forgive the Jews for
Auschwitz and which scapegoated the State of Israel (see Günter Grass’
disagraced poem inciting against the Jews).
A mixture of wealth
and pacifism has been a disaster for Germany and has caused cowardice.
Germany today discusses transgender and burkinis in a moral decline
associated with wealth. Seventy years of “peace” have caused Germany to
lose the will to fight for freedom and to even recognize mass violence
(Cologne’s sexual pogrom).
“The German journalists are now in
voluntary submission”, German Jewish intellectual Henryk Broder told
me. After the last four attacks, if you open the German newspapers you
will find very few free, unconventional voices. Take Christian Bommarius
of the Frankfurter Rundschau: he has just written that “the likelihood of losing life on the roads is higher than the likelihood to be the target of a bomb”.
Another journalist, Arno Frank of Zeit, just asked people to answer to terrorism with a bizzarre weapon: “Serenity”.
Relax: what bad things could happen to the good Germans?israelnationalnews

Imagine the scene: the morning Catholic mass in the northern French town
of Etienne du Rouvray, an almost empty church, three parishioners, two
nuns and a very old priest. Knife-wielding ISIS terrorists interrupt the
service and slit the throat of Father Jacques Hamel. This heartbreaking
scene illuminates the state of Christianity in Europe.
It happened before. In 1996 seven French monks were slaughtered in Algeria. In 2006, a priest was beheaded
in Iraq. In 2016, this horrible Islamic ritual took place in the heart
of European Christianity: the Normandy town where Father Hamel was
murdered is the location of the trial of Joan of Arc, the heroine of
French Christianity.
France had been repeatedly warned: Europe's Christians will meet the
same fate of their Eastern brethren. But France refused to protect
either Europe's Christians or Eastern ones. When, a year ago, the rector
of the Great Mosque of Paris, Dalil Boubakeur,
suggested transforming empty French churches (like that one in Etienne
du Rouvray) into mosques, only a few French intellectuals, led by Alain
Finkielkraut and Pascal Bruckner, signed the appeal entitled, "Do not
touch my church" ("Touche pas à mon église") in defense of France's Christian heritage. Laurent Joffrin, director of the daily newspaper Libération, led a left-wing campaign against the appeal, describing the signers as "decrepit and fascist".
For years, French socialist mayors have approved, in fact, the demolition of churches
or their conversion into mosques (the same goal as ISIS but by
different, "peaceful" means). Except in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés
quarter of Paris, and in some beautiful areas such as the Avignon
Festival, France is experiencing a dramatic crisis of identity.
While the appeal to save France's churches was being demonized or
ignored, the same fate was suffered by endangered Eastern Christian
being exterminated by ISIS. "It is no longer possible to ignore this
ethnic and cultural cleansing", reads an appeal
signed by the usual combative "Islamophobic" intellectuals, such as
Elisabeth Badinter, Jacques Julliard and Michel Onfray. In March, the
newspaper Le Figaro
accused the government of Manuel Valls of abandoning the Christians
threatened with death by ISIS by refusing to grant them visas.
Go around Europe these days: you will find not a single rally to
protest the killing of Father Hamel. In January 2015, after the
murderous attack on Charlie Hebdo, the French took to the streets
to say "Je suis Charlie". After July 26, 2016, the day an 85-year-old
priest was murdered in a church, nobody said "We are all Catholics".
Even Pope Francis, in the face of the most important anti-Christian
event on Europe's soil since the Second World War, stood silent and said
that Islamists look "for money". The entire Vatican clergy refused to write or say the word "Islam".
Truth is coming from very few writers. "Religions overcome other
religions; police can help little if one is not afraid of death." With
these words, six months after the massacre at the magazine Charlie Hebdo, the writer Michel Houellebecq spoke with the Revue des Deux Mondes. Our elite should read it after every massacre before filling up pages on "intelligence failures."
It is not as if one more French gendarmerie vehicle could have
stopped the Islamist who slaughtered 84 people in Nice. Perhaps. Maybe.
But that is not the point. Ritually, after each massacre, Europe's media
and politicians repeat the story of "intelligence failures". In the
case of the attack in Etienne du Rouvray, the story is about a terrorist
who was placed under surveillance.
The "intelligence failure" theory is a fig leaf to avoid mentioning
Islam and its project of the conquest of Europe. It is the conventional
code of conduct after any Islamist attack. Then they add: "Retaliation"
creates a spiral of violence; you have to work for peace and show good
intentions. Then, in two or three weeks, comes the fatal "we deserve
it". For what? For having a religion different from them?
We always hear the same voices, as in some great game of
dissimulation and collective disorientation in which no one even knows
which enemy to beat. But, after all, is it not much more comforting to
talk about "intelligence" instead of the Islamists who try, by terror
and sharia, to force the submission of us poor Europeans?
Europe looks condemned to a permanent state of siege. But what if,
one day, after more bloodshed and attacks in Europe, Europe's
governments begin negotiating, with the mainstream Islamic
organizations, the terms of submission of democracies to Islamic sharia
law? Cartoons about Mohammed and the "crime" of blasphemy have already
disappeared from the European media, and the scapegoating of Israel and
the Jews started long time ago.
After the attack at the church, the French media decided even to stop publishing photos of the terrorists. This is the brave response to jihad by our mainstream media, who also showed lethal signs of cowardice during the Charlie Hebdo crisis.
The only hope today comes from an 85-year-old French priest, who was
murdered by Islamists after a simple, noble gesture: he refused to kneel
in front of them. Will humiliated and indolent Europe do the same?More...

GERMAN activists are planning to hold a “huge” protest in Berlin today against Angela Merkel’s open door asylum policy. Thousands are expected to gather in the capital’s historic Washington Square for an anti-immigration rally, where they will be addressed by right-wing politicians.
News of the gathering is being spread under the hashtag #Merkelmussweg - meaning Merkel must go - which has been used more than 1,500 times in 24 hours reaching hundreds of thousands of people. Police are preparing for crowds of around 5,000 people from across the country to gather in the capital city from 3pm, with counter-demonstrations by anti-fascist groups also expected.
The march is being organised by a coalition of anti-immigrant groups in Germany, where fears have been stoked by a succession of terrorist attacks carried out by refugees. It has been sparked by Mrs Merkel’s refusal to alter her path on unlimited mass migration despite the atrocities, and has been quickly organised by mass movements online.
Germans have been sharing a poster for the demonstration which shows a placard depicting Mrs Merkel dressed in a Burka next to its slogan “Merkel Must Go!”.
Supporters will hear from right-wing speakers from across the continent and are demanding that Mrs Merkel change course on immigration, introducing a cap on numbers and tough new security checks on asylum seekers.
Posting on Facebook, the Swiss right-wing politician Ignaz Bearth said he expected the protest to be “huge” and confirmed that he would be addressing the crowds. In a post advertising the march Wir Dur Deutschland, one of the organisers, said that it wanted the event to be “peaceful” and added: “We can navigate this difficult path if we all just go together”.
The group said that all weapons and alcohol were banned at the march as was any Nazi or far-right apparel, but added that flags of “Germany and all European countries” were welcome.
They told people to obey the police and added: “All participants must contribute to a peaceful and orderly event.”
Mrs Merkel has been savaged online since her surprise announcement that she would not alter Germany’s immigration policy even in the face of a growing threat from Islamist terrorism. She was branded a “traitor” and accused of “creating terrorism” by furious Germans, who used the Merkel Must Go hashtag to register their disgust with her leadership.
Critics also mocked her famous phrase ‘we can do it’ - which she made when she first threw Germany’s doors open and repeated one more as she publicly renewed that stance this week.
One user tweeted: “I suggest we make ‘we can do it’ the taboo phrase of the year.”
And another added: “It is unbelievable. We can make it? Mrs Merkel and Co - WE cannot make it!” A third pointed to the heavy security surrounding the German leader, observing: “So easy for Merkel to repeat we can make it. She’s well protected. Make that awful woman resign.”
Meanwhile one exasperated German said: ”Whoever still says ‘we can make it' after what’s happening in Germany right now, this person can’t be helped."
Germany has been rocked by its bloodiest week in recent history with a succession of terror attacks - some of which were carried out by asylum seekers - stoking growing tensions over mass migration.express

Friday, July 29, 2016

By Raymond Ibrahim
In "an astonishingly savage tirade" – to quote from the U.K.'s Express
– Hungary's Prime Minister Victor Orban recently tore into the European
Union "over [Muslim] migration and taunted Angela Merkel for failing to
protect German people from Islamist terror." (Click here to learn why central and eastern European nations, Hungary chief among them, are wary of Islam.)In
the course of his speech, Orban made two important points that I
habitually make, and that explain the true reasons behind the
unprecedented rise of terrorism in EU nations: 1) Islam's Rule of Numbers and 2) Western enablement of Islam.In regards to the first point, Orban:

...
issued a stunning rebuke to Mrs Merkel on migration, blaming recent
terror attacks on the mas[s] influx of refugees… Migration, he argued,
"increases terrorism and crime" and "destroys national culture" in a
thinly-veiled swipe at Mrs Merkel's decision to roll out the red carpet
to millions of people from the Middle East.

This
is as simple as it gets. Over three years ago, in May 2013, I
explained why a Muslim man decapitated a British solider in the middle
of a busy street in London as follows:

It
reflects what I call "Islam's Rule of Numbers," a rule that expresses
itself with remarkable consistency: The more Muslims grow in numbers,
the more Islamic phenomena intrinsic to the Muslim world – in this case,
brazen violence against "infidels" – appear. ...Thus
as Muslim populations continue growing in Western nations, count on
growing, and brazen, numbers of attacks on infidels – beheadings and
such.

And so it has been. While EU leaders and Western media scurry to find pretexts to explain the rise of terrorism – from "Muslim grievances"
to wars for "money" and "natural resources," as Pope Francis recently
claimed after Muslims slaughtered a priest in France – reality is much
simpler: Islam promotes hate for and violence against non-Muslims. Accordingly, wherever Islam is in power (the Muslim world, for example) non-Muslims are grossly persecuted – and not just by ISIS, but by "regular Muslims" – from heads of state to police to educators down to the mob. If
Muslims persecute non-Muslims where they are strong, is it any wonder
that, as Muslim numbers grow in Europe, as they have in recent times,
attacks on non-Muslims will grow with them? Or, as Orban put it, Muslim
immigration "increases terrorism and crime."The Hungarian prime minister's second important point agrees with another point I've been making:

Those who seek to reverse this situation [growing Islamic terrorism] must begin by embracing a simple fact: Islam is not terrorizing the West because it can but because it is being allowed to. ...Today [as opposed to historically], Muslim terrorists, rapists, and criminals are not entering the West against its will but because of it[.]

Orban agrees:

We
must make it clear that our problem is not in Mecca, but in Brussels
[capital of the EU]. The obstacle for us is not Islam, but the
bureaucrats in Brussels. We would be able to deal with Islam if we were
allowed to deal with it in the way we think we should.

Simply
put, whatever Islam is or teaches – whether it is violent or not,
whatever it does "over there" in Mecca and elsewhere – is not the immediate problem. Rather, EU "bureaucrats in Brussels" have brought Islam "over here," making it a big problem – or, as I more bluntly concluded:

Western
policymakers who insist that Islam is peaceful (despite all evidence
otherwise) and that the West is "obligated" to receive Muslim migrants,
are 100% responsible for the daily victims of jihad, most recently an
octogenarian priest. ... The war begins with them. Kick them and their
suicidal policies out, and watch Islamic terror on Western soil fizzle
out.

It's
all very simple: More Muslims equals more violence against
non-Muslims. This formula acknowledges that not all Muslims, or even
the majority, are inclined to acts of terrorism. However, as Muslim
numbers grow in general, it's only natural that the numbers of
"radicals" will grow with them (e.g., 10% of 100 is only 10, but 10% of a
1,000 is 100). And the immediate issue isn't whether or why Islam is
violent; the immediate issue is that Western leaders are the ones
enabling it, by importing it into the West.It
still remains to be seen if Orban is right "that other European nations
[will] come around to Hungary's no-nonsense way of thinking as the
reality of regular terror attacks set in."